Amorphoscelididae
Amorphoscelididae is a family of mantises consisting of 16 genera in the order Mantodea.[1]
| Amorphoscelididae | |
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| Amorphoscelis elegans | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Amorphoscelididae Stål, 1877 |
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Subfamilies and Genera
Amorphoscelinae
Distribution: Africa, Yemen, tropical Asia
- Amorphoscelis
- Bolivaroscelis
- Caudatoscelis
- Gigliotoscelis
- Maculatoscelis
Perlamantinae
Distribution: Africa, Europe
- Paramorphoscelis - monotypic - P. gondokorensis Werner, 1907
- Perlamantis
NB Paraoxypilinae is now in subfamily Fulciniinae; tribe Paraoxypilini
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gollark: Why specifically *those*?
gollark: If you just define anything which happens as being part of the balance retroactively, then it is not meaningful to complain about it.
gollark: Well, it's a thing which happens in nature.
gollark: There was an experiment which wanted to demonstrate group selection. They put flies that in an environment with limited resources which could only support so many fly children. If nature was nice and kind, they would magically turn down their breeding. As is quite obvious in retrospect, evolutionary processes would *never do this* and they cannibalized each other's young.
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